See how to make healthy bakery style Jeera biscuits in idli stand. Jeera biscuits perfect cookies which are sweet, salty, crispy and crumbly, goes best with a cup of tea. Healthy atta biscuits recipe
Here is the video recipe for easy reference:
Ingredients:
Whole Wheat Flour - 1 cup or 150 gms
Desi Ghee / Butter - 1/2 cup or 75 gms
Powdered Brown Sugar - 1/4 cup or 50 gms
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds (Zeera) - 1 tbsp
Milk - 2-3 tbsps (as required to prepare the dough)
Method:
1. Cream ghee and sugar till light and creamy.
2. In a bowl mix atta, baking powder, salt and half quantity of cumin seeds. Add dry mixture in reamed mixture in batches. Prepare dough by mixing with finger tips. Add milk 1 tbsp at a time. Do not knead the mixture too much else dough will become hard.
2. Roll the dough to give shape of log and refrigerate it for 15-20 min covered in a cling flim.
3. Meanwhile preheat the pressure cooker with salt on medium flame. And also grease the idli moulds.
4. Cut small pcs of the dough and place in idli stand. Keep the stand in the preheated pressure cooker. Remove the rubber and gasket of the pressure cooker lid and cover it. The flame should be lowest possible and cook the biscuits for at least 30-35 min till golden brown and crisp.
5. Ensure to check the biscuits in between and cook further, if required. The bottom most biscuits will bake first so ensure to remove those biscuits first and then continue baking rest of the biscuits.
6. Cool down the biscuits completely and store in an air tight container.
Note:
1. Instead of ghee, softened butter can be used.
2. Cumin seeds be replaced with carom seeds (Ajwain) to make ajwain cookies.
3. Milk needs to be added carefully. Just add 2-3 tbsp mik till one is able to prepare dough.
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